Written by

Josh Huntsman
jhuntsman@thespectrum.com

In a room at The Garden House restaurant, surrounded by posters from past seasons of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Guild of the Shakespeare Festival presented donations equaling more than $18,000 to the festival on Monday.

"It's our blood, sweat and tears in these donations," said Ted Porray, president of the guild. "We are happy to do it."

The Guild of the Shakespeare Festival was founded 49 years ago - two years after the founding of the Utah Shakespeare Festival - with a goal of supporting the workers and actors of the festival in whatever ways they could, according to Porray. ...